Nefertiti Was Not Beautiful

Ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, which is considered one of the standards of feminine beauty and sophistication, was not a beauty.

This is the conclusion, researchers studying the sculptural bust of his wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten XVIII dynasty.

At Nefertiti, whose name literally translates as “Beauty came, was far from perfect bone structure, curved nose and wrinkles. Scientists have conducted a survey of 50 centimeter tomographic limestone bust, which was discovered by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt in 1912, the sculpture workshop of Thutmose at el-Amarna, and which is now kept in the Berlin Museum. His return to Cairo, the Egyptian authorities persistently sought.

Scan the 3000 summer sculptural images showed that, under the outer layer, there is one “face” of Nefertiti – with a small hump on the nose and numerous wrinkles around the eyes, corners of the mouth and cheeks. Such a contrast between two images prompted scientists to suggest that which later became the most famous in the world image of Queen undergone significant retouching ancient artists, a kind of Photoshop available at that time means.

Pharaoh Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten / outwardly quite ugly, with the irregular structure of the body, went down in history as a great religious reformer and husband of Nefertiti, which was considered perfect. She faces decorated temples across the country. Legends say that Egypt would not ever spawned such a beautiful woman. Since the beginning of excavations in the ruins of the city Ahetatona / modern Tell el-Amarna / 80-ies of the XIX century to the present found no clear evidence about the origin of Nefertiti. According to some Egyptologists, Nefertiti was an Egyptian, according to others – alien princess. She gave birth to six daughters and wife died in about 1130 BC, when she was 29 – 38 years. Even a few years before his death of Nefertiti, which played an important role in the life of the pharaoh Akhenaten, has tremendous power and authority, has disappeared from the historical arena, giving place to a minor Queen Kiya, a place which later took the eldest daughter of Nefertiti Meritaton. Along with it disappeared and most of its images.